Steepster's Ultimate Fan Fic Thread!

i started this thread so as not to annoy, shock, or disturb non fan fic readers with our possible mentionings of mpreg, alpha/beta/omega, songfic, RPS, kidfic, tentacle p0rn, and/or bizzare crossovers.

i have a confession.
i spent an hour at work yesterday reading a Firefly fic while i really should have been working. i didn’t mean to do it, but you know how it is when you say “just a few sentences” and then can’t stop…

as Shadowfall mentioned in another thread, i too am in a Hobbit ‘stage’ at the moment.
i read one great fic that had Thorin and the dwarves as if they were the mob. and Bilbo was a college professor of maps. and i have never read an AU story before cuz i find the idea strange and not really appealing, but this one was SO GOOD and i had the best time and it followed me in my mind for days.

then i went to see Citizen Kane a few days after finishing reading it, and i’m quite sure i am the only one in the theater, maybe i was the first person in all of history, that was referencing a Thorin and Bilbo relationship during the film.

Lol. I have a horrible habit lately of staying up until 3 in the morning reading Hobbit fics….when I have to be at work by 8. Lol! Thankfully I don’t have to work that early every day, so I eventually catch up on the sleep. XD

Oh wow, what am I reading right now. It varies from day to day because I get distracted easily.

Sherlock (BBC)LOTR
Harry Potter (ALLTHETIME)
Death Note
Ouran High School Host ClubAVENGERS
Gundam Wing (old school, I know)
Naruto (that’s what kept me up last night anyway)
And that’s just from the last couple of weeks.

No love for mpreg, but love slash and have a deep and abiding love of crossovers. Haven’t encountered much alpha/beta stuff. NO RPS, ew. Kidfic only if it’s adult characters that have been de-aged somehow, no 2nd generation fics if I can help it. Songfics…usually too short for my tastes and I generally don’t bother to read the lyrics anyway, just skipping them to read the real story. I have read probably more than my fair share of tentacle pron and enjoyed some of it. Unusual crossovers are awesome.

Speaking of kidfic, I just read this awesome (unfortunately unfinished) Sherlock fic on fanfiction.net where John was basically erased from reality and then input into a new reality where he never existed only he’s got all of his adult memories and skills and he’s in an 8 year old body. It’s been eating my brain for the last week as I imagine tons of possible ways that the story can go. I like to daydream new endings to things. It was fun reading Mycroft and Sherlock come up with all sorts of theories on hidden laboratories making child soldier prodigies and mysterious masterminds. Fun! Can’t link now, blocked at work. Let me know if you want a link and I’ll link it later.

Land of Hope and Glory!! i did a short search and found it! hahaha
i will follow the author on ao3 and read the full story as soon as it is completed. (since they are on chapter 8 of ?)
i just kinda prefer to wait and be able to read the whole thing at once. so i can keep the flow. ya know.THANKYOU for the recommendation nudge!

i have a sister who is mostly the original fanfic reader in the family. and she is the best curator EVER! so i only ever have to ever read the best of the best. it’s really great. i’m lucky.
Sherlock
Supernatural
Buffy
Firefly
Hobbit/LOTR
Batman (especially if Green Arrow or his sidekicks are involved)
Smallville (especially if Green Arrow is involved)
Arrow (basically anything where Green Arrow is involved) you get the idea there…
etc
basically if i watch a show or read a book or comic and like it, i will look for fanfic related to it.
and my sister always says that anything (any pairing or scenario or AU or crossover) can be good as long as it’s done well. as long as it’s written well.
and i realize slowly that she’s pretty much right.

Just made an account at fanfiction.net. :O
Is there a way to download fic? Or are you meant to read it all on the site? (My wifi connection sucks so I like to just d/l fic and read without interruptions).

fyi if you use chrome as your browser, i use the Klip.me extension to send any article or web text to my kindle. (so you can use it for times when the site doesn’t make it as easy as flagfic does). it’s basically the best thing ever. and also makes it so i have an impossible amount of things to read on my kindle at all times.

Sherlock
some of the very best fic i’ve read to date has been Sherlock.
he’s quite an endearing and enduring character.
please feel free to share your favorites here!!
i’d love to be lucky enough to gobble up something new i haven’t read yet.

i actually haven’t encountered it. but my sis does tend to send me the shorter stories first.
thanks for the link, i’ve sent the story to my kindle already. perhaps it will be my in-flight reading this weekend!

hey Starfevre, apparently some ppl on tumblr are emailing out Esama fic by request. so i might ask for some :)

Sherlock Holmes: I need to get some air; we’re going out tonight.
John Watson: Actually, I’ve got a date.
Sherlock Holmes: What?
John Watson: It’s when two people who like each other go out and have fun…
Sherlock Homes: That’s what I was suggesting.
John Watson: No, it wasn’t. At least, I hope not.

i’m all about the slash.
or just deeper emotional situations that the original author never puts the characters in.
i’ve never read a crossover, but i’m more than willing to try. :)
hopefully i’ll get a copy of that story. i’ll let you know.

I could also use some more recommendations from AO3. Not my preferred site (though it’s up there) so I don’t know how to search it well for high quality/popular things. Sherlock and HP especially, if any of you are in the latter fandom.

when searching AO3, i usually use the right side search section and first SEARCH BY > KUDOS. that usually makes the most loved stuff rise to the top. i just spend a good portion of the morning reading a Sherlock/John that i don’t really recommend.

it’s been a while since i read this fic but i do remember liking ithttp://archiveofourown.org/series/11392
it got in my head in a way and i couldn’t remove it from cannon for a while. but to be honest i might not feel the same about it if i was to read it now, just cuz those were the early days.

here is a tumblrite’s description …so i can get you hooked too??
“It’s a story about love, about war, about things worth fighting for, worth dying for. It’s friendship and bravery and “he said creamily” and Are You Actually An Actual Angel and sex under a Humvee. The salt needs to stop fucking the pepper, and “We’ve always been the same tribe”. There’s Margaret, Mycroft, and there’s a couch that gets ruined, and I cried so hard I got a headache.”

okay so i didn’t put this on my instagram because fandom (and especially fic) tends to weird some people out, but i was with my sister on vacation and i made her take a pic of me with the cap!http://instagram.com/p/bWqMhToc4y/

okay i have a new fandom this week.
it’s avengers
and specifically the tony/bruce/steve pairing
(is it a ‘pairing’ if it’s a poly relationship?)
i know i know could i get any smuttier??
sigh.
i’m not proud of this, but i’m having fun at least.
nothing like a new fandom.

first of all, you are all hilarious!!! between reading this fic in front of me and your comments here, i almost shot tea out of my nose.

i can see how thor/loki would definitely depend on how loki’s personality was handled by the author. and how that could range drastically. so ya, i think i just found a bad one. i like the author and sent myself every avengers thing they did. but i deleted that one before i even finished it. too uncomfortable.

it is rather cute isn’t it!?! i just sent myself a few more stories. :)
i’m losing valuable sleep with all this binge reading. eek! hah

so…
maybe this doesn’t happen to you, and you will all roll your eyes at me for sounding dramatic.
i swear i’m not trying to be dramatic. i consider myself a sensible person.
but sometimes when i read a really great fic. one that has my recipe. i’ll kinda bask in it’s glow for the next few days? like i feel extremely compassionate towards everyone around me. and just generally appreciate the little things more. like when good art softens your soul a little.
now i’m not saying this is art hahah no way i’m not crazy haha
but maybe more like that cheery feeling you get while watching a good rom-com? but extended out for more time and space.
idk
obviously i’m in the middle of it.
wheeeee!

So I’m FINALLY watching the last Harry Potter movie, but it’s funny because it’s been a few years since I read the book, and I keep messing up the plot with Copperbadge’s EXCELLENT Cartographer’s Craft (http://copperbadge.fanficauthors.net/Cartographers_Craft/index/). Some parts of that book have become canon, I guess.